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TURNBULL’S DIARY
1701 Septr. \5th.—New stile dyed King James the seventh at
St. Germans in France, and the prince of wales was imedi-
attly proclamed king of great Brittain, etc. there by order of
the french King.
All this summer the Emperors arms in Italy were successful!.1
18#A, Thursday.—I assisted att the ordination of mr. John
junkison2 to be minr att athelstonford: mr. Tho. Finlay
preacht on jer. 3, 15.
This night my gowt, aftar two full years intermission, seised
me again, my pain was violent till the sabbath morning.
21.—I preacht all day on Tit. 2, 14.
This weeke our harvest was fully ended, and all the corns
inned.
My gowt continued, but the violence of the pain abated,
blessed be god.
Saturnday, Septr. 21th.—About six in the morning was my
wife brought to bed of a fourth son; he was baptised next day
being the lords day in the aftarnoon in the church by the
name of Thomas,3 by mr. Will. Hamilton, minr at Whytkirke,4
who preacht on mat. 6, 5. I preacht in the fornoon on
psa. 18, 31 ; my gowt still continued.
Odor. 1, Wedensday.—The Earle of Dalkeith5 passed by this
from this and all other offices which he held, but was again appointed Lord Justice-
Clerk in 1705, being superseded as such by James Erskine of Grange in 1710, but
retaining his place as an ordinary Judge of Session till his death on 16th April
I735> *n his seventy-ninth year. He was married in March 1679 to Lady
Susanna Hamilton, fifth daughter of John, fourth Earl of Haddington. An
account of the marriage festivities at Tyninghame, and of the expenses thereof, is
printed in Sir William Fraser’s Memorials of the Earls of Haddington, vol. i.
Lady Susanna, whose death is here recorded, was born in December 1657.
1 Under the command of Prince Eugene of Savoy, who inflicted several severe
defeats upon the French at Carpi and Chiari.
2 John Jonkison, M.A., graduated at Edinburgh in 1695 ; died 15th February
1730, aged fifty-five.—Scott’s Fasti.
3 Became afterwards minister of Greenlaw in 1725, and was translated thence
to Borthwick in 1734; Moderator of the General Assembly in 1758; a great
friend of Lord President Dundas ; died 23d March 1786.—Ibid.
4 See note, p. 387.
5 James, son of Anne, second Countess of Buccleuch, who married, in 1663,
James, Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of Charles 11. and was created
Duchess of Buccleuch in 1673. This dignity she continued to hold in her own
right after her husband’s execution and the forfeiture of his honours in 1685.—
Douglas’s Peerage.